Project Tag: Roche

  • Roche Building W7 Warehouse Addition

    Roche Building W7 Warehouse Addition

    The main entrance affords immediate access to the employee amenity spaces, including the social hub, restrooms, locker rooms, and computer workstations.

    All of the building’s glazing has been carefully designed to block direct rays of the sun, while admitting generous amounts of indirect, diffused natural light into the interior. The roof design incorporates carefully positioned light monitors, allowing diffused northern light to filter into the center of the space. The building’s design also incorporates floor-to-deck windows on the east elevation, which are also equipped with sun shading/diffusing louvers to admit additional diffused daylight into the work environment. The north-facing docks and the southwest mezzanine employ high bay windows, with exterior shading/diffusing devices, to admit diffused natural light into the work and amenity spaces.

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  • Roche Tissue Diagnostics Central Utility Plant

    Roche Tissue Diagnostics Central Utility Plant

    The architecture’s simple, utility-driven forms and warm, desert-inspired material palette expresses an equilibrium between the project’s technological objectives, internal functional requirements, and sustainability goals.

    The mechanical equipment screen walls were very carefully designed for optimum function and aesthetic sensitivity to context, integrating high-end, metal-clad exterior acoustic panels with noise controlling ventilation louvers into a carefully detailed structural steel framework.

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  • Roche Diagnostics Lab and Office

    Roche Diagnostics Lab and Office

    In order to maximize natural light while adhering to sustainable design features, detailed 3-D models, sun path studies, building sections, and energy analysis models were developed and analyzed to inform the final design configuration of the west façade shading system and glazing. The design solution creates a carefully designed, glazed west-facing façade which allows very controlled, diffused natural daylight directly into the circulation atrium and deeply into the lab, office, and interaction spaces beyond.

    The interior spaces were designed with extensive interior glazing to display the advanced laboratory technology and innovation that is central to Roche’s business success and corporate culture, as well as to allow for the deep penetration of natural light. The Design Team combined very clean, European modernist materials and furnishings with a warm palette of neutral hues and accent colors rooted in the native Indiana landscape.

    As the result of the client’s tech-based culture and high design aspirations, the design team employed a rigorous, multidisciplinary, sustainable design approach to create an uplifting, technologically advanced facility that inspires its scientific staff and expresses its culture of scientific innovation.

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